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J. D. ARMSTRONG. MANURE DRILL.

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7 JAMES DARRIS ARMSTRONG, OF ItOdKY MOUNT, NORTH CAROLINA.

MANURE-DRILL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,483, dated May 12, 1885.

Application filed December 22, 1884. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, JAMES D. ARMSTRONG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rocky Mount, in the county .of Edgecombe and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Manure-Drill; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this improvement is a fertilizer-distributer, of economical construction and simple operation, provided with mechanism that can be variously adjusted for depositing the fertilizing matter over plantrows of different widths. These results are attained by the mechanism illustrated in the drawings herewith filed as part hereof, in which the same letters of reference denote the same parts in the different views.

Figure 1 is a top view with the fertilizerbox removed and parts broken away for the purpose of more fully illustrating the relative position and construction of the parts. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section taken on the lines as m and w m of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a rear elevation with one of the parts removed. Fig. 4 is a front view of the same.

A A are longitudinal, and B B B B are transverse, beams matched or halved together and additionally secured to each other by screws or bolts a a, into a frame to which the mechanism is attached. The outer'longitudinal beams, A, are extended forward and form shafts for drawing the implement. O is a square-bodied axletree provided with transporting-wheels, one of which has a hub provided with detents on its inner bed, as shown at G 0 is a sleeve provided with detents corresponding to thosein the hub, and is arranged tobe adjustedinoroutof gear withthe detented hub G by means of a lever, 0 which is pivoted to the under part of the beam A near its rear end and extended forward to engage with the sleeve 0 by means of a groove, 0, as shown in Fig. 1. The lever G has a downward curve which engages with the groove 0 beneath the sleeve, as more fully shown at C in Fig. 2. The object of this construction will be hereinafter fully set forth.

The draft-frame A A, B B, B B is connected with the axl'etree O by means of a central plate, D suitably secured to the transverse beams B B and side plates, S, secured to the beams A by screws or bolts, as indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 1. The central plate, D, has a downward extension which fits over a grooved enlargement or addition, f, to the shaft 0, as shown at D Figs. 2, 3, and 4. The side plates, S, secured to the beams A, have similar downward extensions, S which fit over a grooved enlargement or addition, 0 to the shaft '0, and over the adjustable sleeve 0 as more fully illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4.

F F represent a series of radial extensions or arms of the part f, from which they reach into the fertilizer-box E, which is open at the bottom. D D are metal bars pivotally connected at their forward ends to the transverse beam B between the latter and a metal bar, G, provided for the purpose of additionally securing the relative positions of the bars D D, which are provided at their rear ends with screw-threaded eyes d for the reception of opposite ends of a right and left threadedscrew, H, centrally provided with a shoulder, h, for operating the same.

G is a metal plate having a recessed projection, g g, for the reception of the screw-shoulder h, and is centrally secured to the transverse beam B below the bars D D and D through the latter of which it is secured to the beam B by means of a, screw or bolt, substantially as indicated in Fig. 1.

KK represent thin metal plates, of semicircular form, flanged at their curved edges, and provided with perforated lateral projections k for the reception of set-screws R, which enter correspondingly-threaded sockets in the downward extensions D of the central plate, D and thus secures the position of plates K, provided with inclined lateral extensions K, of leather or thin sheet metal, which are secured by rivets or otherwise to the plates through their flanges, as shown at k, Figs. 3 and 4, and operate as guides for the deposit of the fertilizing matter.

The transporting-wheels C revolve on ordinary axles at the ends of the axeltree O,

which'remains stationary during the traverse of the implement except when the detented sleeve O is put in gear with the detented hub C by means of the lever U, which will give motion to the axletree (J and the arms F, which will engage with the fertilizing matter in the box E and cause it to fall on the inclined guides K, which may be secured to the central plate, D at a greater or less inclination by means of the set-screws R, and thus made to drop the fertilizing in plant-rows more or less separated. The mechanism can be made to distribute the fertilizing matter more or less abundantly by means of the right and left threaded screw H, which will move the plates D D to or from the arms F,

according to the direction in which it is guides K. The discharge of the fertilizing matter at unnecessary times and places is prevented by disengaging the detented sleeve and hub when the rotation of the axletree 0 and the distributing mechanism will immediately cease.

Having explained the construction and operation of my improvement, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a fertilizer-distributer the plates D D, screw H, central plate D and adjustable curved fertilizer-guides K K, in combination with the draft-frame box IE, and axletree 0, having arms F, and arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JAMES DARRI S ARMSTRONG.

lVitnesses J. O, HARPER, JNo. T. MORGAN. 

